Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is being pressed by a non-governmental charity and a household helper to carve out targeted assistance for struggling families whose budgets have been savaged by the coronavirus pandemic. With the 2021-22 Estimates.....

The exposure of personal data for tens of thousands of Jamaican and international travellers on the Government’s much-touted JamCOVID web portal has triggered fears that the breach could threaten confidence in the Holness administration’s propos...

A leading Indian manufacturer of a vaccine in late-stage clinical trials has wooed the Holness administration with a pledge to inoculate Jamaica’s 2.8 million population. Bharat Biotech, the company that produces the COVAXIN vaccine, intends to......

Armed men threw a Molotov cocktail through a window to flush 80-year-old retired mason Clifton Berry from his Rhymesbury home in Clarendon then shot him dead as he tried to escape on Wednesday night. It is the latest in a string of such attacks...

Munro College Chairman Elias Azan has said that the loss of almost a year of schooling because of coronavirus restrictions could set back the country for decades. His comment comes in the wake of this week’s closure of the all-boys high school in....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): An international tribunal has found that the Jamaican Government violated the rights of a gay man and a lesbian, according to a ruling released Wednesday, and activists say it could set a precedent in a region long known....

Christians yesterday marked the beginning of Lent with new-look Ash Wednesday services marked by fasting and prayer across the island amid the pandemic and its restrictions. Lent is the 40-day period of reflection on Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and.....

A push by Christian media workers from TBC Radio to join the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has resulted in a dispute, with reports of a stand-off at Sunday’s annual general meeting (AGM). The row has triggered the resignation of legal...

The cold-blooded murders of two of their colleagues within 24 hours has driven fear into dozens of farmers across Westmoreland who now believe they are being targeted by deadly criminals. The murdered farmers have been identified as 62-year-old...

As the sentencing date inches closer for one of the killers of Simone Campbell-Collymore, her family is pressing for the maximum sentence to be imposed, preferably life without parole. Keshtina Bonner, the younger sister of the businesswoman, who......

WESTERN BUREAU: Disgraced former flight attendant Kalina Collier is not likely to be banned from ever visiting Jamaica, as Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett urges the closing of that chapter in the country’s history. Collier brought Jamaica’s na...

Residents of Crooked River have described the chopping death of 61-year-old caregiver Sharon Cole, reportedly by her estranged lover, as a cold-blooded act. Police reports are that about 5:10 p.m. on Monday, the accused...

SILENT HILL, Manchester: A Manchester man succumbed to burn wounds on Tuesday just over a week after escaping the clutches of gunmen in his home town of Silent Hill, where he was beaten, set ablaze, and left for dead. Jerrime Hendricks, 45,...

The Government has failed to enlist the voice and muscle of the Church in amassing support for the proposed COVID-19 vaccination campaign, buy-in that could be crucial if the country aims to achieve herd immunity. Heads of local church groups,...

WESTERN BUREAU: Incumbent head of the Accompong Maroons, Colonel Ferron Williams, will face a leadership challenge from four contenders when affiliates of the St Elizabeth-based enclave go to the polls on Thursday. While his challengers, including.....

WESTERN BUREAU: The non-attendance of representatives of government bodies at the regular monthly meeting of the Hanover Municipal Corporation (HMC) has been criticised by councillors, as only six of 14 listed agencies turned up in February. Fed-up....

A mother has been slapped with child-cruelty charges after allegedly burning her eight-year-old son with a flat iron. A police team on patrol in Kingston on Sunday responded to the father’s desperate plea to intervene after the injuries were...

Three positive for COVID at RJRGLEANER Lyndhurst The RJRGLEANER Communications Group is working closely with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to assess response mechanisms after three of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. The...

Stanford Edwards has not slept or eaten since he learnt that his only daughter was found dead, with multiple gunshot wounds on Monday morning in Portmore, St Catherine. The businessman travels back and forth to Jamaica and had what turned out to......

WESTERN BUREAU: Administrators at the all-boy Munro College in St Elizabeth came under fire on Monday for reported lax coronavirus protocols and a culture of complacency that caused an outbreak of infections that has shuttered the school. Munro’s...